The General Strike 1926: A New History Brandon David
The General Strike 1926: A New History Brandon David The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. With their families and some middle-class sympathizers,…
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The General Strike 1926: A New History Brandon David
The General Strike was one of the most significant events in twentieth century Britain. With their families and some middle-class sympathizers, the miners and the labor and trade union movement found itself pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus of the state, the powerful mineowners backed by the Conservative Government and most of the media of the time in what was the sharpest form of class conflict short of political revolution. The miners were locked out and the mass of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their support.
In 1926 they certainly did! It had always said that the British didn't do general strikes. 2026 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the General Strike and, under the very different economic, social and political conditions of post-industrial, post-Brexit Britain, it is worth revisiting and examining the
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A General History of the Pyrates
A General History of the Pyrates